Let me just pick up on one point that Senator Kerry made -- I think people in Minnesota, and I think it will be this way with people around the country, and I think this is what Senator Lugar has been trying to say all along.

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So just to pick up on one point of perhaps disagreement, I would say that the thing that we need to be focused on, and I hope we will spend some serious time talking about it tonight is, what are the dynamics at work in this world?

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The ideal picture would be one in which consumer demand neatly slackens just at the point that exports and investment pick up.

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